What Will You Do For the Future of the Jewish People? - Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles Trustee Dinner

it is my great honor to introduce RAB Danel gladin RAB gladin is a huge Tam world famous anybody who got to hear shur over shabas can see I've listened to this sh before but hearing it live is really really unbelievable I checked on Torah any time today and I couldn't find anybody who has more shm than he does I think he's got 10,000 shm or more on there he traveled across the country to be with here for the shabas to beik and to speak here tonight without further ado blin those who were fortunate to attend today's H were witness to a historic event the streets of the valley of Los Angeles were on fire not a fire of Destruction a fire of inspiration a fire of spirituality a fire of the Eternal flames of kavra a fire that reflects the fire of Tyra that burns every single day in Yeshiva Katana of Los Angeles that had the pleasure to see firstand the Beautiful the beautiful learning in Yesa Katana and I would like to thank my very dear friends rabie Rubenstein rabie davidowitz for affording me the opportunity to partake to participate in this Unforgettable chabas in this Unforgettable HRA which is dedicated to the memory of the father of my dear friend Rua Rubenstein Noah and all of his siblings nishas and I am confident that today's and the genuine that this generated has brought a great alas to RAF the rambam tells us something very interesting the ram tells us that when discussing the events of you need to emphasize that the performed the Miracles through the medium of M Renu you know there's a big question about M raenu why do we call him by the name mosa you know mosa is not a Jewish name that's the name the daughter of the Pharaoh gave him you know the daughter of the Pharaoh came down to the Nile and she's bathing in the Nile and she sees this little baby floating in the Nile this little baby that's wrapped up in a crib his mother tried to protect him from the crocodiles from the tides and the Torah says she reached forth her arm she draw him out of the water but that wasn't his Jewish name name you know mha rinu had Jewish names mosa was like Eric Jeffrey Kevin but that wasn't his real name he had real names aigar yel y son his mother gave him a name at the Brisa so why would we choose the name mha that the daughter of the Pharaoh gave him you know mosha is the typical Jewish son-in-law he's working for his father-in-law he's tending to the Sheep in the desert and he sees a bush that's burning and it's burning and it's burning you know in Kut they would say that the Bush was burning for a really long time and people would pass by the bush maybe they would snap pictures they would put it on their status and then they would walk away they had an appointment the store was open the market was open nobody really paid much attention to this Burning Bush said hey what's going on over here why is the bush burning and yet not being consumed and theam looks down from Shay says I've been looking for a man like that I've been looking for someone to stop and pause and ask them eles why is the bush not burning that's my man hears the resounding voice of a but why does Hashem call him M why not AAR why not y why not y it's a big question so I have a friend back from my Yesa days Ezra gartz he's a grandson of RAB Barrel wine so he sent me a clip that Rabbi wine said at a dinner to answer this question to answer this question you know Rabbi wine said that whenever he goes to Yim he makes it his business to stop off in Yad vashem to visit the monument the memorial to the Six Million who perished in World War II during the Holocaust and on one occasion he was told that there was a new Memorial in Yad vashem in the Holocaust Museum a Children's Memorial and it was a memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children who were killed in the Holocaust just think about it for a moment 1.5 million Jewish children how many more times that is than any big Yeshiva in the world today so of course there's a Jew in Beverly Hills his name is Spiegel and Spiegel they're Hungarian Jews and 80 years ago he went to awit with his wife and his 5-year-old son 10 months later he comes out of awit all alone he comes to the United States he comes to Los Angeles he became an extremely successful entrepreneur he owns a lot of real estate he has retail establishments and he wants to make a memorial for his 5-year-old son so he goes to yadvashem with $4.5 million he says I would like to make a memorial for my five and 5-year-old son but not just for my son I want to make a memorial for the 1.5 million Jewish children who were killed in the Holocaust and since then he gave $10 million to complete it to endow it so Rabbi wine says he goes to the memorial and he comes with his preconceived notions what a Holocaust Memorial is supposed to look like probably there'll be recordings and maybe a video and statistics and shows and paraphernalia and when he entered the memorial he was completely stunned and unprepared for what he was about to see you walk into a room 8 to 10 stories high 50 times the size of this room and the room is Pitch Black it's palpably black you can't even put one foot in front of the other it's it's like and you walk into the room and your eyes cannot even take in the darkness and your eyes begin to adjust and in the middle of the room there's one candle that's lit in the middle of this vast room of darkness and by the genius of the designer and the architect of the museum through Reflections through mirrors this one candle becomes 1.5 million pinpoints of light in the vast sea of darkness and there's a voice over it there's a tape that plays and the tape does nothing but recite names hell Cohen three years old vilna Miriam Goldberg 7 years old SAR Evo names names names names names until you can't beer it anymore and he didn't want to run out of the room and Rabbi wine said when he left that room one thought remained with him I didn't hear my name my name was not on the recording I was the same age as these kids and if my name wasn't on the tape then I could still do something and I'm not going to give up and if I could take another boy into my school I'm going to do it and I've I have the opportunity to speak one more time I'm going to do it and if I have the opportunity to be m one more child I'm going to do it if my name is not on the tape and then Rabbi wine said I thought to myself that's exactly why the almighty called him M because every time Hashem called this man he said M you should have been long gone you should have been eaten by the crocodiles you should have been drowned by the tides but I yanked you out of the Nile when thousands and tens of thousands of other children perished you're a Survivor M and mosha has no choice but to say you got me I'm a Survivor H here I am friends do you think it's hyperbole when we read in the we read these words words that in every generation we have to imagine ourselves as if we were in Egypt and we ask ourselves we weren't in Egypt we live in America but friends if you're a Jew in 2025 and you survived Egypt and Corban by anden and Crusades and pums and Holocaust and October 7th you know why every Jew has to imagine themselves that because there's another what do we say in the that's why and therefore we have to ask ourselves so why am I still here why do I have the opportunity to build a Jewish family to support a a Yeshiva in America why do I have that opportunity why did God choose me why did God yank me out of the Nile and we have no choice but to turn to the rebon and say you got me H here I am what could I do for you 1946 Rabbi wine likes to say the story he was 11 years old and his father said barl we're going to the airport what's in the airport a great Rabbi is coming to the airport who's the great Rabbi Rabbi Isaac halvi Herzog Chief Rabbi of Palestine I have a personal connection with r Herzog my grandfather met rev Herzog in the DP camps in 1945 and my grandfather confirmed what I'm about to tell you Rabbi Herzog was a very aristocratic uh personality he was a majestic personality he wore a shiny Top Hat he had a cane he walked with a silver covered body Bible and he gets he lights from the plane and he heads to the ski Yesa where all the bam in the midwest were waiting for him together with the balaba together with the community to greet this great Rabbi who proceeded to give a Shear in Yiddish for 45 minutes when the shear was over rev Herzog said I would like to speak now and address the young men rev Herzog had been a rabbi in Ireland in Dublin so he spoke with a slight Irish brogue he turns to the young man and he said I just returned from Rome where I had a personal audience with the Pope with Pope Pas I 12th I guess it's a Lon Sagar I had with me the names of 10,000 Jewish boys and girls whose parents gave them over during the Holocaust to churches to monasteries to priests to guard to watch their children because the parents didn't think they would ever see these children again and with Herzog has audience with the Pope and he said Pope give us back the children we're alive we're here they're ours we have their exact names give us back our Kinder and the pope slammed the door on his face the pope said every single one of these children have been baptized and according to our religion once a child has been baptized he can never return back to any other Faith so so sorry these children are lost forever says rev Herzog I pleaded but to no avail and rev Herzog is standing there in 1945 in Chicago in front of 200 Young American boys and he's so overcome with emotion he put his head down on the lecturn and he wept bitterly Rabbi wine said it was the most frightening moment in the last 200 years in the world rev Herson broke down in front of the entire audience moments later rev Herzog raises his head his face was red he was powerful like a lion and he cried out to all the young men standing in front of him there is nothing we could do for these 10,000 children but I ask of you young men what are you going to do for the future of the Jewish people what are you going to do for the children of CLA isal you're still with us you still have the opportunity what will you do for CLA Israel and to me this is not a story my grandfather writes in his personal Memoirs of the Holocaust that he met rag in 1945 in the DP camps and rsag told him he had just come back from meeting the pope Rabbi wine says every time time he wants to give up every time he's down every time he's disheartened he hears the Cry of of Herzog ringing in his ears what will you do for the future of the Jewish people and that's what inspires and that's what challenges and that's what shapes the decisions in his life dear friends a Jew has many responsibilities but a Jew's primary responsibility is to ask what will I do for for the future of the Jewish people what will I do for the children of CLA Israel what will I do for Jewish continuity and all you dear friends and supporters of Yeshiva Katan of Los Angeles you are answering that call because by partnering with this yiva you are making a difference in this world we saw today firsthand the power of toyra the eternal power of toyra in 2025 to change change children to change neighborhoods to change communities to change the west coast to change the face of the Jewish people all of you for coming out tonight before the of P I wish you all kavod for your past support even more important kavod for your future support May hasem bless all of you with from your families from your children may we all be good health